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who ,hould violate these just duties?—lnfamy, the na turil death 'of .the traitor, and the civil death of hip (its ).;• ntlants. What is natural death ?—Privation of life. What is civil death. ?- 7 -The privatiOn 'of property, an I of the honours which the Country bestows on all true and valiant Citizens. • CHAPTER 111. Who is come into Spain i—The.seconcl person of . the di4botical trio. `Vhat :are his principal functions ?—Despotism, robbery, and oppression. • "What doarine cloth he teach us ?—lnfidelity and depravity of manners. Wire can 'free us from such an Envoy !—Union and arms. • ' Is it a sin to kill Frenchmen ?.--No, far from it ; a merit, if thereby we candelivetour country how injury and insult. '. GII APTE r. 1,V,,0 What is courage ?-ooustaUcy pi d miuci -in those who, with prudence and coolness, pursue the means of. victory: And is not subordination necessary to its attain ment ?—So much so, that it is its first qualification. To whoni is it due ?—To all our Chiefs. in the eye of your country, who is .the best and mast noble of her sons ?-1 7 10 who distinguishes hi ;Hell' most. ; by honour, courage, and disinterested -I;ess, be who he may.. Who are- those who solicit greatness,. honours, and rewards, before they. have .exercised those. vir tues i—The proud and senseless, who do not knovir low to obey, and who are generally the rtioSt Useless. 'What - ideas ought to' lead' us • oft to bktle ? Om k!ountry'S welfare, the defence of our brethren, and the universal 'glory of the nation. Who, are thcAo whose duty. it is to bear arms ? Ail chase whoa - I - the Government decals the fittest, and' whom the community can best spare. What are thd duties of the rest - ?=-7•TO contribute with patriotic generosity a part of, the means they have derived' froM jheir.country. And he, that has nothing,!v;vhat-is ; be• to - do ? Pe.i,y to God for the - success c - of t4Z l 4tla l itiiliArms, nnd occupy himself - in the•bu,iiud4lPdltvlitai he has tx.en uroUght up, whiCh i is'arstAt 2 tiiii)de r bf cEiHttibii tion to the put;lieweal. To whom 'ought we to look fOr i t3tiidhji i rpirie'ss God, ilitt skill and loyalty of our Cliiefs s ,'dtid our , o xn courage and docility. CHAPTER V. What policy and. condu& ought Spaniards'to ob sei ? —The maxims of Jesus Christ and the Gos- pvl. i . crt m Which ,does our adversary tollow --Those 'of • ALICIIIaVeIQ. - .... . .•.---..2.3A.:;',12';'3..1' 1 ' ' `ln what are they founde4 ?--,--In i Eg9tjsp, ~, : • - To what ttlid do Oley e confauce.?- 7 -4;_oFot - opte their zelf-interest to the .prewdice and ruin . of illeir lel-, ;ow How dolbey obtain it ?—By representing critnes • virtues. CHAPTER VI. By what means, have the tyrants occtipied Our, yQli?-1.3y deception', treason, and every base ar- tilice. Are theie Means sufficient to obtain the .crown which belongs to another i'=-Nt); so far from it, they have rendered themselves unworthy of our re gard ; and we must resist, with all our strength, a . t" ictg who .writhes to; enter' by siv.:ll ulllaSt gild abo rilinable • What telicity therefore must we seek ?- 4 -Such a& • they can never give'us. And. %viva is it ?----The. security of our rights, the free exercise of our holy tehgion, and . the establish- Ment of a Monarch4al Cloverntnent, • adaped . to the institntions.cf Spain, and,her relations with the rest ut Eurcne. • . , • \Vell,. did we not possess it already . % - -,:—YeS; till disoroanizO' the indolence of th4E66pieme Au -0 tilmßics who governed.us. Jia.a • Aud who. must regulate it A r kiiibled in 10:r Corle, who alone have this tktilf?6ielitgive of forego influence. Wtio would have samaioned: t:HlOplk i n 'Fer dinand VII. who we-pray God maybe restored the b - asorn of our love for ever.—Amen. VIANA, AVG. 9.-- 7 The Licentiate, Don JOSEPH SANjULTO, has received the iollowing - lcitter„ . Con- . t.:ining the details of the departuio,hiqfielFrinch M:iarid, and some other.pal'titiiiars — :"' NIILLAVE;RDE, AUG'. thank God - that I can-noWlivritelo - j•on in ti,e . 11,11 est manner, and. free frdWithe interrUpted our correspondeneeiTikin,g to the Pie,ence of those enemies of the public . tranquillity.. " l therefore hasten to give you the most sails fidory information, As in the tifnwolElias„ when San aria Was compassed about, me Syrians sod- . dtErily abandoned it, being struck with a panic ter ,or, v. it h uo lesi precipitation have those enemies of rile human race evacuated our capital Madrid; and, breailing fury and vengeance, hastened their - return ibwards Valencia, threatening nor to spare a Single az;c l t . 9unniLllng, on their march, the tyiPst execrable roues, the Most abominable excesses; cup h, inct•_cd, that when we read the history plan- . nt tines, we shOuid think them peculiar to ti e c;abansin ot those ages. This was the first oc- . upon whieh (and .1 almost regard it as a tuira iSio th e voice of terror was heard among their awl they gave manifest proofs of fear, cooltpion, and particularly of a degree of so iii-suited to their proud spirits. , — h was to them a day of sorrow, trib9lation, t.,iiterness ; and' on the 3 I st, I#llo4aEurbpean tigers fled iu d pursued Fven4s3ritty'shhitfos.vS' of the women. .. • " Such was their precipitation; thlitthey aban- - cloned the frnit's of their iniquities,- - ;their -Tonheries, ici.d outrages every kind. _Their ground-works at the iteiiro, their palissdot.s, .I),,itions, covered wayS, r.velines,,ditches, {nitres, batie - fies, &c. be ai to the whole population of Madt l ld its furnishing them write proofs of the - dansler to which we were ext)otied... •• At Retiro, they left behind them lot C.-i• pieces Of ,w,i , noh, 'carrying from 16 to 6-pound' . sKot, 10 rhortnrs, a number of howitzers, a veiy great t.ty of shells,' grenades, matches,: acid other imille r.t'mts of tyranny. The wood (";f:the'Oiisadoes is _.:one valued at three Minions: The'llnilditA which, fOrin,:riythe Theatre of FERIZINAND yi, 'Wa's ibcre are stipkOsed to C.F: ~i~ Ibe 3000 bags of it. The bason was covered over with barrels of powder. of which, including what v. as lying there in cartridges,, thew is calculated to be 5000 arrobas. The number of swords, muskets, pis tols, pikeS, &c. is very great. In a word, as an army put to the rout, and closely pursued by the enemy, abandons every thing, in order to accelerate t heir igh t, so have the French given up to us all the means by. which they could have had any hope of reali itig their - plans: The king of topers, the jolly son or brother of Bacchus, fled by the subierraneous passage lead. : ing to the ricer ; his good friends URiamo, the two ,NEGRETES, FRIAS, 11ARIBAR,- CABARRUS, MARO,I7I - NA, CABALLERO, and the rest of the gang, inane their escape asthey could. The great MAR4U±NA is ixtade a Captain of Mamelukes. The w hole of the Freneh ar,- tizans, cooks, tailors, milliners, &c. who-were settled here, have fled in the greatest precipitation, leaving behind - all their valuables. A coachman asked 24,000 reals from one of them for a ,Coach to Bayonne, and . he obtained 16,000. To wh a t i s a ll thi s to b e ascrib ed ?' Upon this point there are various - Opinions. France, according to some, is in a complete state of' insurrettfon. RuSsia; Germany, and Turkey, have,. according to others, declared war against the impious NAPOLEON. It is a feet, that the Secretary of the Russian Embassy attended. the Council late in the . -evening of the 31st pit, anddelivered his,sentiments .at great length„in consequence of whicD, the people received him with shouts, and called hint `their friend and ally. Others account for it *by the a'pkoaelioftAs- TA-NOS, &c. They destroyed all the, gun-carriages, spiked the cannon; with the exception ,of seven,", which they had not time to spike. They carried • away 5000-of their sick Who were:m the hospitals, leaving behind them about iOOO to the protection of Spanish clemency.. With the exception ,of.theie, not a single Frenchman remains iii Madrid or the' envi rons ; we pity the 'towns which they are to pass giro', -There were about 8000 of th em a t O can a, Avlici marched, in one day, to Madrid: In passing throtigh , ValdemorO, - they pillaged the church of the Carme lites, carrying - off the -communion-cup, phials, &C. and tearing up -the • pews and pulpits. The joy Which prevails in this quarter is beyond description. The people rung the bells- during the whole of the' night of the 3 i st, and amused themselves with balls, bonfires-, and every species Of •diversien. We this day . proclaimed a course . of nine - days thanks giving. I. have offered to -preach on the 'l3th. This example has been followed in all the . adjacent villages, for the oppression we laboured und'erwas,, great. They threatened me'with death ; but,be- , sides that I was not much alar me d. I hate the satis faaion to know, that the Man who threatened me fell by a musket ball in La Mancha. 'What I parti-, cularly feel is, that they eat up all ,'my wheat and. barley, and, gaVe me a debenture Payable at the day of Judgment . ; 'but I 'will not 'grudge. it, provided I never again see.their faces: In this little place .Lhey Made. contri but itinS to the amount or 234,721 reals, and at Panto, they levied to the amount.of 682,425." The following Proclamation, addressed to the French Arrnies in Spain, has - been circulated in the ~ S panishi and *French Languages. It is dated from Ciudad RodrigQ. " fIRA,VE• SOLDLERS- OF THE , FRENCH ARMY ! "The tiroeia , ai rhed in which you should know your' real happiness. NAPOLEON,. the base NAPO LEON, has raised himself to the Throne of France upon the ruins of your-fathers-and your fellow-citi- •zens.: In promising -you the blessings of a good GovernMent; he has only deceived. you liV . theans . -the. 7 most infamous. , The blood.which., during ten years, has flowed from the-veins of:your comrades, has, only served to augment. the.splendour of-his indi *idual greatness; and:the ImPn eal : Crown' has no thing for its support „but -the tombs of Frenatnefi, • misled and dazzled by his brilliant'chimeras .- Fra nce , after. a reVoltition which will tnake-her name resound to the latest . posterity, .agitated by various stories, expeded that the morning of her felicity:was 'draw ing- near,, by means of the Great,N"APOLEON. Yes, Frpnce e,xpeded it; . but has it appearcd ? On the contrary,' her plains . have been robbed of theirtfir- • ous bands of her peasants, in order to fill Italy, -Ger many,- and Holland with their dead bodies. :The: youth.'has been snatched_away. froth th e b os om of . his mother, in order to sacrifice him to the tire'& sword, and relentless ambition of one who is The.i.te.: rociOns enemy of his country. ~ t-lis treachery :.1)s practised the most seducing arts. He .has pretended . to reverence the God at Heaven, in order to elevate hitnielf.as a God upon earth. In sporting with-:the lives ()linen, he has outraged the most sacred names of virtue and humanity, to deceive the simple and well-meaning. France expected to see 10 NAPOLEON her :Jiberator, but, .she has only found in him her tyrant. Her worthy citizens weep i n s il ence t h e miseries of their slavery; but the Great Man, instead of breaking the fetterS Which-oppress them, has also Sought to enslave- 7 whOin ? .0b God,- the avenges' of ingratitude ! 'That nation which ,has always been the affectionate friend of the French people :- a nation more easy to eXterininate than to disgrace a people, who- imbibed the sentiments .of tsar religion', Mingled with the maxims of . a philo sophy that supports and contforts,.atte placed beyond the dread of the tomb.. ' . _ He wishes to enslave Spain ; that is, he wishes to chain to his t:iumphal chariot ten milliorts of souls. Nlighty NAPC4,EoiI ! Mighty projeet! But.-tbe sarles of this'splendidexpedit ion are already rendered incapable of harming us. General' DUPONT, a pri soner, hiinself, has seen his wliola army overwhelm ed'and perishing under the thunder of Bcetic - valour. Another, who was at Oporto, is also a prisoner; and the perfidy and •villainy . Olthe . .great'ProteEtor of Spain, exposed. to the light, have. been no , longer -able to ensure, him success. Soldiers ! for what then do yob hope ? Four hundred thousand; men, With arms in their hands, in% ite you with brotherly friend ship. The Spaniard, ,the .friend of every trtie and virtuous' Frenchman, while he embra'ees him- with one hzind e , will, stretch out the other to divide With him his bread" and Burst 'asunder ibell', - Soldiers,' - the 'chains of ambition by which - y - 611%rd bound; quit the bloody standard of tyranny, to . enrol .yourselves under that which is the piote4or of flu- . inanity and 'ot 4easiin. Affluent Spain offers you -peaix and 4bundage6, and will you . refOse thei - n?: It is not the like and perfidious NAPOL,EON dresses you ; it .is the generous; the rich, and . the .•, . . _.• • powerful . Spain.' , ,- • • liIGIi WATER AT LONDON 8R1D.GE:T0.4101,.. ROW Morning, 13 min. after t e fternuon, 47 ritin, atter 1/*, MAILS. AAKIVILD-1 Dublin, Waterfonl. Dug-3 Gottenburgh, 1 Malta, 1 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS' THrs DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK Cer:ols THE SUN. 110L/M qurs DicRRA 141.3111111 AUDCAT ? L 0 N D N, 'WEDNESDAY, AUGDST 31, 1808. A letter was yesterday received by a Mercantile House in the City, from Gijon, dated the igth inst. which stated, that another attack had been made upon Saragossa, by General LEFEBVRE, with an Army consisting of eleven thousand mcp, in which he succeeded so far as to force his way into that City with a part df his troops. The Patriots, however, ,made so determined a resistance, that the French were ultimately repulsed, with the. loss of ..6000 ,men. This report rests solely upon the atlthority of the letter to which we have ,alluded no, accounts whkever have reached Government upon the sub 7 jea. There can, however, be no doubt that if the French were in sufficient force in Arragat,,they . would reiterate their attacks upon . Saragossa, as The possession of that place would beof great .impor tance to thi-m, if they mean, as we have . no doubt they do, to endeavout to defend the Line. of the Ebro. • - Very considerable supplies of Arms and Aanrnu : nition have been sent from the POrts in the North west of Spain, to the Biscayans, who will, we trust, .be soon enabled to recover their' Capital out of the' . hands of the French. WE understand Government are daily expecting the arrival of the Praa Spanish Frigate, having on .board the Governor of Monte Video, and that or ders have been issued for the strictest attention to be 1 paid ber at the port she comes to. 19SEPli BUON AP ARTE, King of Spain, at. Bayonne. •• JosErit BO9rinr,,,a.ltE. on the Road .to his.Capitai. • josEPu BuoiNAPARTE returning from his Capital to Bay:. 01111 C. WE have had more than one occasion to remark that, in all the enormities 'Committed by the Cor sican, . NAPOLEON BUoNAPARTE, the wickedness of the conception i 3 always. accompanied with such a degree of ridicule in the mode of execution, that the sneer of contempt is eternally mingled with the bursts of hatred and the just fury.__of.indigna- There have been tyrants and usurpers in every age; but whatever - may be said by the sycophants of BUONAPARTE in this country (whether actually hired, or aspiring to be so), no period. before the present ever beheld a usurper' constantly' Uniting, in lumbelf, the sublime of villainy and the sublime ot ridicule ; and it is this unalterable mixture Which renders BUONAPARTE a real prodigy ! In all ageS, the usurpation of a throne, the degra dation of a Royal Fatuity, formed, for those who witnessed it, one of those suroising events which pierce the heart with terror. BUONAPARTE, and BUONAPARTE alone, since the first existence, of the :world, has found means to throw on this dreadful outrage ash 91 ridicule so deep and so indelible, That it is impossible to say who! her the historian, in ,describing the horribly revolution of Spain, will be able to preserve ;he gravity which the subject so ini periously demands. NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE has stolen the crown of Spain, just as CARTOUCHE and RAFFIA? would have tricked and plundered a simple countryman . who ,had fallen into their hands. The general question throughout Europe now is . —How could a King, advanced in years, like GIIARLES IV. become the dupe of a deception that would :not have imposed on the youngest of his pages ? The answer is, because CHARLES IV. bad neither eyes nor ears, nor conscience, nor. intelli gence; nor forecast, - nor will : be had only A FA :•votiarrE ! But liow could a Queen, who is gene rally supposed to :have some understanding, suffer : herself to be precipitated into an abyss like this ? Be_ cause she had . A FAVOURITE. But how, in fine, could this Favouritd' consent to ruin at once his Masters and himself; to deliver them up to the most Cruel . of Tyrants, and to become himself, either the yietim or the valet of the Cut-throat ? Because he was ,A FAVOURITE ; ill other words, a presumptuous . upstart, without talents, or the capability of acquir ing them the dupe of 'flatterers, feeding his vanity with . intereste ‘ d honiage of the base wretches who surrounded him ; the declared enemy of great parts, ..ipd eternally ready to calumniate them, to console himself; in his _insignificance, foT the impos§ibility of appreciating them justly. With all this, hoWever, it is notorious that the condo& of BUONAPARTE towards CHARLES IV. the afrEEN, and Z .ing FERDINAND VII. is a monstrous jumble of the most execrable atrocity, and of that , mean and buffo . on juggling which.is peculiar to the lowest and most despicable of mankind • ` The most grotesque scene of-,this borrible.: tragedy, acted in the theatre of Bayonne, by the company of Nitfot.iotsT, and under his immediate direCtion„ is the ele6iion of this miserable JosErtt BUD:NUT/031:S to , the throne of Spain and ihe jodes. Ah ! poor. Joszpail ,I)C-Fas neither ambitious of so. much honour nor, ) a so much danger . He steps forth,. IiOWEIVer, .Being on the stage of Bayonne; and immq diarely all .tht Grande6s of Spain, , who had been taken in BUOkAPARTZS rat-trap; advance, and, at a signal given by the. Corsican, fall on their knees ku • this poor. JOSEPH, swear inviolable fidelity to Lim, and, from the bottom of their hearts, promise him the fifsti gibbet on which it shall be feasible to truss up his 4 Most Catholic Majesty ! The wretched • .:J()sErit4 sufficiently informed_ to divine their real ertimehtslaVishes his caresses, upon thein, which ,they_relialt with the most abject prostration : it was thus at Bayonne, that fear sought to flatter hate, and. that hate endeavoured tc(cajole fear. At lenith this Monarch of Spain and, the.lndies, shuddering with affright, is compelled to go and take poisession of his throne. NAPOLEON, COilVi Ile ed in his own mind that he alone has preserved any, resolle6tion of the existence, of, Lows XIV. and the departure of PHILIP V. presents the Spaniards, swelling with 'indignation at, his insolence, and the Reuch 'enjoying, with mischieYous malice, all tlY:e. ridiculousness of their tyrant, with a parody of the . adieu 'of Lovis XiV: without fOrg4tirik the 'cele.r brated expression—`' q 9, 'my brother;, the fyren- , nees are no more !" TO describe tte" - eftettotio burlemitiea scene, AA e must hay'e witnessed - s dismissed, JOSE begins his journey) . Ot te 111169vattiat theTY renneeS still exii:f,"iltiio" stis JsQfras he as passed'them, by the necessity he , fiteitOf ascertaining the possibility of reaohing them in and of placing them betveen the Spa ,. niards and. laiinself. ‘At every 4!!p he takes in the country where he comes to reign, he learns to ap- mc c idiel the people with whom he has to 4leak; h. 9 . .IRAP;s to /fipaw, and to respeet them, from the con- Attgipt v(hich 4e universally inspires, and the her .,, . tor, which he sees but too well is every w 4 9 r(i , in,445.5 ed at his approach. Scatcl ly has this miserable .I:OSEPEi reached the frontiers of. his ic.it - igdom, when he perceives . the .. . dreadful sword plPAtuocEs over his poor. head.-- He perceives, from' the instant he' ha s'touched the soil 6f Spain, that every objet is changed for him : that the inexpiable crime in the eyes of the first, of the only people of theCoutinent who in our time hove preserved t he ancient virtues—that the inexpiable crime, we say, 'of kaving dared to put tprzi 4 profane band to the Crown of their 'Kings, had .rendered . hihrite — Objarof all their vetigeinice •; that. ih Spain . Judge .. every Spaniard . was his legitimate i. just .0., in all. •• ' • . ' • the countries of the earth, every ci izen, in times. of anarchy and guilt, is the lawful Judge of every. : Cut-throat who presUrnes to usurp the plaCe of the L laws, and subject the'people to his . tyranny. Villages' deSeited, cities abandoned by all who. ygr r il s g.iipbl of beatiog arms, or , flying; houses, of . which it ,iwtl44 , necessary to bre.ik open the . 0pur..; . ,. to -r: WO th 7Ni of Spain; Merchants ; pursned br. ittige e 7 ,1 and . compelled by threats of instant. texositro .9 futtiish a dinner for the Aurg iY7SPaiA' t mr;.s. and .of the Indies ;. a few Unfortunate Priests ; bend-. t'ing under the load of,age and infirmity, dragged to the churches to Sing ''e Deums, amidst the 30ii aide of, Ahmicined teinpies s—THrs, and THIS ALONSP: i igitilvtiifitlKing Jost rli saw from the moment he' it4t4:N . ,A l iii.solv! this is the only sl,eaacle that ' yiasi - p.rtsetits i tto him front St: Sebastian `to Madrid ! ' 1 Athivti at7t4hdrid,' his first object is to execute the. 1 ordeA lijinch had been left by the Duke of B.IIG, I who, by the way, is Duke of BERG somewhat in ihe rnaniier that JOSEPH is King of Spain and the Indies'! A horde of assilssins, composed of Frenchmen, Poles, Germans, and Italians, are bid to run before the chariot of Josnrri and cry God save the King ! in Spanish ; but thrse- wre.1.4445--14a4 tiio 1 . 411e-04110 ,0 acquire tie idiom of the country ;. and the nativt heard with bitter ridicule, the pretended Castilians , embodied to . receive the King of Spain and the In dies, jabbering French, Italian, German, rind Polish, and hammering out with ditficUlty or rather mur dering, four, sttnple Spanish Words ! And it is, environed by this tumult uous rabble, by this gang of sturdy beggars, that JosErit takes pos session of the;ideserted Palaces of the King of Spain .Scarcely Itavgq be doors closed upon him, when the heroic troops ofMottAT rush into the streets with fixed•bayonets, and strip the bakers' and . butchers' shops, to supply the table of this _Monarch, received, .as the Papers of his Brother NArolzot4 infortnus, with the universal acclamations of the Spanish People ! Poyc l l i ymit, however, has hardly been four and tweittrhours on. his throne, when he learns, to his • utter thitaertnn,t, that hiS suhjeas have taken thin libotty-of knocking on the head a feW 4,.• • thousatA. 41T10 most faithful subjects of his august Brother ; that; the inbincible DUPONT is defeated Aid taken prisoner . .by General cASTANOS ; .aud that of all possible dangers, none is so much to be appre-: tion.